Catshill
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7 hours ago, Martyn Folkes said:
Thanks to the OP for the question, and to Old Bruce and Catshill for answers, but how do you import Word .docx in plain text? Copy and Paste Without Format? Or is there a better way?
And how can you do it while retaining italics and bold text, which is very time consuming to find in the original document and then reformat, and could lead to errors? (I guess you use tags, but how is this done in practice?)
Thanks!
Yes copy and paste without format. And yes I manually apply bold and italic in APu. Importing styles (even just bold and italic)from Word was just too time consuming and I just prefer having a ‘clean’ base to work from.
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I find it more reliable to do all my formatting in Affinity and only import Word files as plain text.
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12 hours ago, Serif Info Bot said:
An issue raised in this thread ("Export area is not remembered between exports") has now been reported to the developers by the testing team (Ref: AF-86). Thank you very much for reporting this issue to us.
I think you will find this has been reported previously.
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8 hours ago, soggybag said:
I'm worried that this will be a problem with a print service. When export pages 2-29. The pdf ends up with a two page spread as the first page. When I export all pages the first page is a single page, not a spread.
Almost certainly your printer will require the export as pages not spreads. As @walt.farrell says just run two exports (as pages), one for the cover and one for the other pages. Just remember that (annoyingly) you have to change it from spreads to pages every time.
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9 hours ago, PaulEC said:
It isn't a "bug", it's "by design" – it is also very stupid and annoying! (I have no idea why Serif refuse to let the user decide which default export option they want!)
Post edited accordingly
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Exporting to spreads by default and not remembering that you want pages is a very frustrating bug/feature that never seems to be fixed and it’s been a “feature” of the suite for many years.
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Why not export each page as an image like png and import into PPT?
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Select each art text box and use the align centre function in the layer menu.
Alternatively place all the text in a single text frame and align centre.
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44 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:
Does Outlook 2016 provide any configuration settings for how attachments are opened, such as which applications to use or where they're located?
This is done via Windows settings not Outlook.
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I've also changed my COM Add-ins so they do not load at startup.
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17 hours ago, Hangman said:
Hi @Catshill,
Are you running Windows 11?
If so, just a stab in the dark but do you have the 'New Outlook' toggle switch in the top right corner of your Outlook screen? If you do and you toggle it off, does it make any difference if you then double-click the attachment when you have Affinity Photo as the default app for JPEG and JPG files?
Outlook 2016 does not have a toggle switch at the top right hand corner of the min menu.
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22 hours ago, - S - said:
Does Outlook 2016 give you the ability to see the file path where the email file attachments are stored? For example:C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Outlook\1ABCAB\Attachment 01.jpg
If so, is there anything abnormal about the path of the file attachments, for example any special characters anywhere in the path, or a non-standard path?
Once you know the path where it's stored, try opening the file attachment directly. For example, change the below jpg file path to the path of the Outlook file attachment on your machine (not the exact path I have below as an example) and enter it directly in the Windows Run dialogue [Windows Key + R]. N.B. This should be the path where Outlook automatically stores received email attachments, not where you manually save attachments from Outlook.
"C:\Program Files\Affinity\Photo 2\Photo.exe" "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Outlook\1ABCAB\Attachment 01.jpg"
Also try just the file path itself, which should invoke the default application for opening jpg files.
"C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Outlook\1ABCAB\Attachment 01.jpg"
- If the JPEG file opens OK from the Windows Run dialogue, then it demonstrates that Affinity Photo is able to open the file if the Affinity Photo executable is correctly invoked and the path is valid and passed to it in a valid format – therefore the issue likely lies elsewhere. Either in Outlook itself, or something third-party preventing Outlook file attachments being opened in Affinity Photo. Perhaps security software restricting what applications can open Outlook file attachments, I.E. what processes Outlook can spawn or invoke. I don't know.
- If the JPEG file does not open OK from the Windows Run dialogue, what is the error message displayed in Affinity Photo? Also, what happens if you try the same thing with another non-Microsoft third-party application capable of opening JPEG files other than Affinity Photo?
This is the path and yes if I double-click the attachment from there it opens in Affinity
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Content.Outlook\H32RAHPM
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On 12/23/2023 at 9:46 AM, GarryP said:
Have you tried restarting your machine, just in case some setting or other needs to be dropped from a cache and ‘woken up’ in its new state?
The PC has been restarted numerous times since the issue surfaced.
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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
And Windows is set to use Affinity Photo 2 for JPG files?
Yes of course and as stated it has worked previously. It’s only when I set the file association to be Affinity that it fails to open. No issues if I associate jpgs with another application.
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If MS Paint is set as the jpeg default then Outlook correctly opens the attachment.
Outlook 2016 is not a web service but installed as part of a local installation from an executable.
I am using the exe versions of the Affinity apps downloaded from Affinity directly.
@GarryP I’ve not changed anything prior to the issue occurring.
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11 hours ago, GarryP said:
1. Where is the attachment; is it saved to a local storage device or ‘in’ Outlook?
2. If the file is ‘in’ Outlook, have you tried saving the file to local storage before opening it?
3.Which Affinity application(s) are you using?
4.Can you launch the applications ‘normally’ via the Start menu, desktop shortcut, etc.?
5.Once you have launched the application ‘normally’, can you open any image from a local storage device via the “File → Open” menu?
6. Can you launch the applications, and open an image at the same time, by double-clicking any image file on a local storage device in Explorer?
7.When you say “no longer open”, what has happened to your hardware or software since this situation changed?
1. It’s an email attachment aka a jpg
2. Yes of course but email attachments normally open in the relevant application without having to save them first. This is the case if the file association is changed to MSPaint.
3. APu, ADe, APh - all three fail to open when an attachment is opened
4. Yes of course. This bug relates to opening email attachments not opening files stored locally.
5. Yes
6. Yes
7. I believe this behaviour only came about after the Affinity 2.3.0 update.
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Outlook 2016 file attachments (jpg) no longer open in Affinity applications (2.3.0). Changing the file association to MS Paint and the file attachment opens correctly but if it is set to any Affinity app (I am using the exe version) it doesn't fire up the app or load.
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It might help to think about why you are using a baseline grid. For me it makes body text of documents consistent across pages and frames (I rarely use columns). I don’t use a BG for headings, pull quotes etc but I do consider their font size and leading to ensure it works with the body text.
I first get the font size and leading right for my document with BG off. Once it looks right, I apply the BG to the body style and adjust the setting as described above to ensure it works with my body style. Adjusting the BG parameters last so it matches the base style, rather than the other way round, is the best way to do it.
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I use a range of different masters with meaningful names and use the pages panel on the left to apply them. I highlight the page thumbnail(s) and right click to apply the required mp from the drop-down.
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Use the pen or pencil tool or one of the shapes.
Text spacing issues.
in Affinity on Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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In situations like this, and when time is at a premium, I’d import as unformatted text and search and replace for double spaces until they are all single.